ISIS AC­KNOWL­EDGES DEATH OF JI­HADI JOHN IN AIRSTRIKE

The Is­lamic State has ac­knowl­edged the death of the masked mil­i­tant known as ‘Ji­hadi John’, who ap­peared in sev­eral videos de­pict­ing the be­head­ings of Western hostages, in an ar­ti­cle in its on­line English-lan­guage mag­a­zine Dabiq. Ji­hadi John had been iden­ti­fied by the US mil­i­tary as Mo­hammed Emwazi, a Kuwait­i­born Bri­tish ci­ti­zen.